I recently proved this (I think!) when it happened again when I tried to upgrade to WMP 9 from WMP 7.1.
What appears to be happening is that the boot fails if the registry gets to above a certain size, and it seems to be specifically if the system.dat file gets to above about 12.5MB in size. Since then I have had this happen again a few times when I've installed new software, and it seems to happen if anything complex is installed which writes a lot of registry data. To cut a very long and painful story short, I had to abandon Office XP (it is actually a dual boot system with Windows 2000, and I now use Office XP just on Windows 2000, with no problem.) I also started to get all sorts of error messages about the registry being corrupted if I tried to test its integrity with utilities like Norton Windoctor.Įventually I had to fix the problem by using scanreg to restore an earlier version of the registry, but this of course didn't contain the necessary keys for Office XP. I could then re-enable the adapter, and it worked fine, but the system wouldn't start normally with it enabled. It would boot in safe mode, and by trial and error, I discovered that if I disabled my network adaptor in Device Manager, it would boot normally. The install went fine, but when I re-started, all I got was the dreaded "VFAT unable to load" BSOD. It first came up when I tried to install Office XP on the system. I have an issue with my Windows 98SE system which I'm hoping that one of the many Win98 experts on here may be able to shed some light on.
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